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Population Migration

Further Sources

The following items are available for consultation in our public search room:

Topic Areas

General
18th century - George Africanus
19th century - Irish
World War I (1914 - 1918) - Belgians
Post war (1945 - ) - Indian Sub Continent / African - Caribbean

General

Census returns 1841 - 1901 giving details of individual households including ages, occupations and place of birth

1981 Census Regional Migration West Midlands (S312)

1991 Census Local Statistics (S312)

A History of Wolverhampton, C Upton, 1998 (L9 UPT)

Wolverhampton Race Equality Council - Ethnic Minority Statistics, 1999, (No.1) (L302p)

Wolverhampton Race Equality Council (formerly Council for Community Relations) annual reports 1968 - onwards (L302)

Wolverhampton Inter-Faith Group minutes and papers 1974 - 2001 (D-SO-49)

Ethnic Minority Organisations in Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton Social Services, 1988 (L302)

Wolverhampton Council Black & Ethnic Minorities Directory, 1998 (L302p)

Wolverhampton Chronicle from 1789

Express and Star from 1883

Folders of newspaper cuttings 1950s - present date
(These are available on various subjects including: Afro-Caribbean Education Trust; Immigration and Sohota Brothers.)

Black and Ethnic Minority Experience Project (BEME) interviews 1999 - 2000 (DX-624)

Records from individual schools - log books, admission registers etc 19th - 20th cent (D-EDS)

Housing on Trial: a study of immigrants and local government, E Burney, 1967 (L3391)

Race and Borough Politics, FW Reeves, 1989 (L302)

Midland City: Wolverhampton Social and Industrial Survey, T Brennan, 1948 (L3)

Wolverhampton Council - report of Director of Education on Multi-Cultural Education 1983 (L37)

Wolverhampton Council - Race Relations and Equal Opportunities Committee signed minutes 1982 - 1988 (CMB-WOL-C-RR)

Wolverhampton Community Health Council Health and Race Equality Group signed minutes 1986 - 2000 (D-CHC/5)

Social structure and prejudice in five English Boroughs: a report prepared for the IRR Survey of Race Relations in Britain, Institute of Race Relations,1970 (L302)

Wolverhampton Council and other local authorities- Bilston Urban District Council, Bilston Borough Council, Wednesfield Urban District Council etc - records of housing, welfare committees etc 19th - 20th cent

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George Africanus

Articles Relating to George Africanus (L92AFR)

Black Country Bugle No 269, August 1994 (S07)

St Peter's Church baptism records 1603-1876 (DX-274/1-18)

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Irish

Irish Migrants in Britain 1815-1914, R Swift, ed., 2002 (L302)

Irish in the Victorian City, R Swift & S Gilley, ed., 1985 (L305)

Newspaper cuttings re. disturbances among Irish Roman Catholics following lectures by Mr Murphy, 1867 (DX-482/2/24)

St Patrick's RC (Secondary Girls) School log books and admission registers etc 1895 - 1971 (D-EDS-154)

English Urban Magistracy and the administration of justice during early 19th century: Wolverhampton 1815 - 1860, R Swift, Midland History XVII 1992 (L347016p)

Anti-Catholicism and Irish Disturbances - public order in mid-Victorian Wolverhampton, R Swift, Midland History IX 1984 (S052)

Wolverhampton 1871 and 1971, M Shaw, Population Trends 1979 (L3)


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Belgian

National Relief Fund, Wolverhampton Local Representative Committee minutes 1914 - 1919 (DX-152/1)

Woodfield Infant and Junior School log book, 1913-1928 (D-EDS-127/4/1)

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African-Caribbean and Indian sub-continent

Forward March (DX-624/8/3)

The Church as I See It, LC Garwood, 1990 (DX-624/8/1)

The Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration, The problems of coloured school-leavers, Minutes of Evidence, 1968-69 (L302)

The Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration, Minutes of Evidence, 1973-74 (L302)

Transport and Turbans: a comparative study in local politics, D Beetham, 1970 (L302)

In our own words - a selection of real life experiences of people living in the All Saints area of Wolverhampton, All Saints Women's Resource Centre, 1998 (L9 ALLSR)

During the period 1948 - 1969 how did the arrival of immigrants from the Caribbean affect the community in Wolverhampton? J Holt, 2000 (King's School thesis) (L302SR)

Wolverhampton's Windrush: African Caribbean achievers award brochure 1998 (L302p)

Reflections: selected writings and speeches, EJ Powell, 1992 (L8POW)

Like the Roman: the life of Enoch Powell, S Heffer, 1998 (L92POW)

Enoch Powell: speeches and pamphlets 1960s - 1980s (L8p)

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